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Report: This Is How The NFL Could Fix PATs

Extra points are broken, and nearly everyone in football agrees. Last year, according to Peter King in today's MMQB, 30 of 32 NFL teams polled agreed that the PAT has to change. And per King, a framework for changes appears to have emerged during last week's league meetings....

Tank Top-Wearing Gronk Twerks In Miami

We have a new development in the Summer of Gronk, as enormous highlighter Rob Gronkowski is still wearing the same shorts from yesterday, but now has a matching tank top. Gronk went onstage during 3LAU's—I hate myself—set at Ultra Music Festival in Miami....

Jets owner Woody Johnson sold his Fifth Avenue apartment for $77.5 million. But don't worry: the Daily News reports that Johnson "never actually lived there, instead opting to stay in another of his homes at One Central Park West."...

Russian Goalkeeper Takes A Flare To The Back Of His Head [UPDATE]

In today's Euro 2016 qualifier between Montenegro and Russia, a flare from the stands hit Russian keeper Igor Akinfeev in the head. Ouch. Here's another look:...

How Dan Snyder Helped Get An Enemy Reporter Promoted Right Out Of D.C.

The on-again, off-again engagement of Dan Snyder and Jason Reid is on again....

NCAA Issues Statement Over Indiana Anti-Gay Law, NFL Says Nothing [Update]

Yesterday, in a private ceremony in his office, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed into law the state's "religious freedom" bill, which would allow businesses to refuse service to LGBT customers. Numerous local companies and institutions have wasted no time in condemning the law, and that includes the N...

Shirtless Gronk Twerks In Miami

Rob Gronkowski—the answer to the question "What if an EDM track somehow learned how to play football?"—is in Miami, shirtless and twerking. Do you need to know anything else?...

<i>Chocolate </i>Is A Martial-Arts Classic If You Just Focus On The Kicking

So Chocolate is not Chocolat, the 2000 Johnny Depp/Juliet Binoche movie where people eat chocolate from a particular shop and it somehow makes them fall in love with each other. Chocolat is the sort of movie where you know it takes place in France because people speak English in French accents. It w...

Report: Falcons And Browns Told Of "Severe" Penalties

According to Adam Schefter, the Atlanta Falcons and Cleveland Browns were informed of their pending punishments for pumping in crowd noise and illegally texting coaches in-game, respectively. The penalties will be announced next week, Schefter says, and they will reportedly be "severe."...

Bill Belichick Is Pissed The NFL Won't Adopt His Great Idea

This seems as uncontroversial as it comes: everyone, from fans to bookmakers to players and coaches and officials alike, just wants the NFL to get calls right. So why is there so much resistance to Bill Belichick's long-fought attempts to have cameras permanently installed on every field's boundar...

Pants-Pooping Florida RB Says Pooping His Pants Helped His Career

During the Birmingham Bowl back in January, Florida running back Adam Lane pooped his pants during play. You can see the evidence above. Pretty embarassing, right? Not so said Lane in an interview today, as transcribed by The Alligator’s Richard Johnson:...

The NFL will decide what to do about the extra point at meeting in May, and the chair of the competition committee says "there's a clear movement to wanting to change and change it this year."...

My Compost Bin Has Been Overrun By Fruit Flies, Send Help

Jolie Kerr is a cleaning expert and advice columnist. She'll be here every week helping to answer your filthiest questions. Are you dirty? Check the Squalor Archive for assistance. Are you still dirty? Email her....

Chip Kelly Says He Wanted Sam Bradford <i>And </i>Nick Foles

The Eagles knew they were taking a risk when they stripped personnel power from GM Howie Roseman and handed it to Chip Kelly, who might be brilliant or crazy. Owner Jeffrey Lurie admitted as much in comments at the owners' meeting yesterday, and said the team could have been content racking up 10-wi...

Tom Coughlin Wants His Dang Phone's "Lady In GPS" To Shut Up

Giants head coach Tom Coughlin is 68 years old. Factoring his age in with his demanding job, no one's expecting him to be on the cutting edge of technology. And yet, Coughlin's anecdote about his inability to turn off Siri on his iPhone—or, "the lady in GPS"—is still fantastic:...

Is Aaron Hernandez Good At Murder? A Deadspin Debate

Earlier today, Diana published a thoughtful look at how Aaron Hernandez's well documented recklessness and stupidity likely will not stop him from getting away with murder. The seed of that post was an internal debate among Deadspin staff about whether Aaron Hernandez is good or bad at murder, an...

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Peter King Does Weird Things With His Mouth

As Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie talked to the media Tuesday, Peter King was in the background, licking his lips, among other things. We all probably look odd when we don't know a camera's on us, but we're still going to enjoy King doing his best Chip Kelly impression....

The Time Aaron Hernandez Peed On A Cab And Told Off A Reporter

The MMQB's Greg Bedard, who was a Boston Globe reporter on the Patriots beat during the seasons that Aaron Hernandez was on the team, has written an essay about his time spent covering Hernandez, and it includes one scene that begins with Hernandez pissing all over a running taxi cab and ends with t...

Aaron Hernandez Is An Idiot, But He Still Might Get Away With Murder

You can get away with murder, you know. It's just easier for those of us who don't murder not to think about it. To some extent, it's baked into the system, one designed in theory (though not always in practice) to start out with a presumption of innocence. The other factors that come in usually...